PHP 8.4: more alive than the living
summary
Overview of the upcoming PHP 8.4 release and its notable features: a redesigned JIT, new hooks and asymmetric property visibility, new syntax allowing new without parentheses, an object wrapper BCMath\Number, added array and HTTP request helper functions, lazy objects, and a #[Deprecated] attribute. The talk focuses on these concrete language and runtime additions and how they expand PHP’s capabilities compared to 8.0/8.1.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to PHP 8.4
- 2:33Properties and property hooks
- 19:23Lazy objects in PHP
- 28:27BC Math numeric objects
- 34:08Updates and compatibility
- 49:40Q&A
